Xiaobo Jia new President Asia of Bühler Motor

Nuremberg, 12. June 2014 – Effective May 1, Xiaobo Jia will assume responsibility for all Asia business of the Bühler Motor Group. As President of Buehler Motor Co., Ltd. and located in Shanghai she will expand the sales and production network of the Asian region.

“We are proud to have won such an competent and experienced executive. The commitment to Xiaobo Jia is clear signal of the strength of the Asia market withing our future strategy”, says Peter Muhr, President and CEO of Bühler Motor Group.

Xiaobo Jia previously worked at several positions at Behr GmbH & Co. KG in Shanghai, China.
She was the China Director and Chief Representative of Behr Shanghai Office from 2001 to 2006. Successfully she guided Behr to penetrate into China market from zero basis through planning phase to establishment of highly profitable business.

Afterwards, Xiaobo Jia worked as Deputy General Manager on behalf of Behr at a production Joint Venture between Behr GmbH & Co. KG and SAIC Motor Cooperation Ltd. (The biggest auto maker in China). She was in charge of marketing and sales for both Chinese and overseas markets, both OE customers and independent after market distributors.

Xiaobo Jia started her career from a Volkswagen JV – FAW-VW in Changchun, China. After 4 years of working as assistant to the First Vice President of FAW-VW, she moved to Germany for a 2 years MBA study at Steinbeis University Berlin.

With many years experience of the China automotive industry, Xiaobo Jia has very good connections with the key persons in OEMs and the market sensitivity.

Xiaobo Jia is a native Chinese with fluent English capability and she can communicate in German as well. Xiaobo Jia is married with 2 kids.

About Bühler Motor

Bühler Motor delivers demanding, custom-made, and reliable drive solutions with DC/BLDC small motors and gear motors.

More than one of out every ten employees at Bühler Motor works in Research and Development. Our in-house sample shop and R&D department, combined with state-of-the-art test labs, enable Bühler to concentrate completely on quick and flexible development of customer specific drive solutions.

1,600 employees ensure successful development, industrialization and production of mechatronic drive solutions for mid- to high volume applications.

With eight locations on three continents and highly developed process competencies, Bühler Motor is able to fulfill all customer requirements for short transit times, quality, and on-time delivery at the required volumes. The company’s strategic markets include the automotive market, the healthcare equipment market, general industrial solutions in the field of building automation, agriculture, transportation, pumps, paper handling, vending and banking machines and more.

www.buehlermotor.de

Bühler Motor GmbH
Roswitha Schuller
Company Communications
Anne-Frank-Strasse 33-35
D-90459 Nürnberg
Phone: +49 911 45 04-1129
Fax: +49 911 43 08 69-1129
e-mail: Roswitha.Schuller@buehlermotor.de

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